Customer Reviews

He's Back!!!!! (5 stars)

I love this CD.
I love MIKA.
So awesome.
Does anyone else hear the Queen influence on his music? Particularly on "Lover Boy"?

Lolli-Pop (2 stars)

I really liked "Life in Cartoon Motion" –but this new album just feels too, hmm, musical theater-y…."We are golden" is most likely the new favorite song of my 7 and 8 year-old cousins. Nothing wrong with that, but…

If your favorite tunes on Mika's first album were, say, "Grace Kelly", "Relax", and "Happy Ending" – you may be disappointed with this outing. If however you loved stuff &qu

We are ____ (5 stars)

Mika's sophomore album is well worth the wait. It is not good, it is not great, it is GOLDEN

Biography

Pop magpie Mika's bright, kaleidoscopic music has drawn comparisons to everyone from Queen and Elton John to the Scissor Sisters and Rufus Wainwright. Born Michael Holbrook Penniman in Beirut to a Lebanese mother and American father, Mika and his parents moved to Paris while he was still a very young child, and eventually London by the time he was nine years old. The frequent moves, incidents like his father being taken hostage at Kuwait's American Embassy, and bullying at school affected young Mika…